DEPARTMENT: Planning and Community Development
DEPARTMENT HEAD: John Dugan
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: 1
SUBJECT:
An ordinance authorizing the execution of a Development Agreement and Right of Entry Agreement with the San Antonio Parks Foundation, granting up to $50,000 from the Midtown Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ) #31 fund for the development of the Maverick Dog Park.
SUMMARY:
City Council is being asked to consider an ordinance authorizing the execution of a Development Agreement between the City of San Antonio, the Midtown TIRZ Board of Directors and the San Antonio Parks Foundation granting up to $50,000 from the Midtown Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone #31 fund to support the conversion of the Maverick Park, an underutilized City owned park located at Broadway and Jones, into a dog park. In addition, this action will authorize the execution of a Right of Entry Agreement between the City and San Antonio Parks Foundation giving the San Antonio Parks Foundation permission to enter the park to perform the work as described in the Development Agreement.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
On January 23, 2015, Joe Alderete, Ashley Riley and Larry Clark, representing the San Antonio Parks Foundation, made a presentation to the Midtown TIRZ Board of Directors proposing to convert the underutilized City owned Maverick Park into a dog park. The Midtown TIRZ Board awarded $50,000 to the San Antonio Parks Foundation to support the proposed dog park and directed staff to review the proposal and to draft an agreement.
Over the following ten months, the City Attorney's Office and Tax Increment Finance (TIF) staff, in cooperation with City Parks and Recreation Department staff, entered into negotiations with the San Antonio Parks Foundation representatives. On November 17, 2015, the Midtown TIRZ Board of Directors approved a Resolution (attached) authorizing the execution of the Development Agreement.
ISSUE:
This ordinanc...
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